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Until a person becomes born-again he or she is under the thought process of demonic spirits. Because until you get genuinely saved you basically operate from a demon's way of thinking. And how you think is what governs your life and how you ultimately live.

"We know that we are children of God and that the world around us is under the control of the evil one." 1 John 5:19

"If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing. Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God." 2 Corinthians 4:3-4

No matter how nice or graceful we imagine ourselves to be: we even parent from a demonic perspective. The scriptures declare:

"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one..." Romans 3:10

Jesus Himself even stated: "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!" Matthew 7:11

Jesus basically called even the best parent an evil parent: because until one comes into a dynamic born-again REAL encounter with the living resurrected Jesus: that person still carries the wicked, evil and demented mindset of demons.

See, you have to understand that from the day you were born you've been mentored by an evilness that controls the mindset and way of thinking of everyone in the world. And it remains this way for you until you fully surrender your life - including your mind - to Jesus Christ. Especially your mind! Because your mind is the controlling factor for how you think, act, treat others, treat yourself, and for how you live.

Even when we are born-again we still must go through the lifelong process of renewing our minds. We do this by literally being brainwashed; not in a bad negative way. But in a good way. The right way. After all:

if your brain has been steeped in filth and darkness its entire existence, washing it is exactly what's needed. And you wash your mind by listening to the Word of God - the Bible - and allowing it to teach you how to live, act and be.

By allowing your mind to go through the metamorphosis of total transformation under the brilliant cleansing light of God's Word, you prepare yourself to be a Kingdom citizen of the Most High, and a person God can trust with His true riches.

Get into His word! Become studious - addicted even - to reading and devouring the scriptures. You know you are undergoing the type of transformational positive brainwashing I'm speaking of here when you find yourself crazy-addicted to studying the Bible. You can't get enough of it, no matter how many times or how often you've read it.

That's the kind of addiction God wants you to have; an addiction to hearing what God has to say.

"O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water." Psalm 63:1

That's the place we all need to strive to get to: where God becomes our fix and our addiction! God wants to do a clean, complete work in your life. And He wants to start today. Will you let Him?

An atheist asked where God was, when a man was recently caged and set on fire by Muslim terrorists.

To answer this, we will have to set aside his atheistic worldview. He doesn't believe that this was evil, because we are all just random animals that came about by accident, and there’s therefore no ultimate right or wrong. This was merely typical of what happens thousands of times each day in the animal kingdom--the stronger of the species survives.

Let’s instead adopt the Christian worldview and believe that this was indeed evil. The atheist’s point then, is that if God is good and this was evil, He should have intervened with perhaps a bolt of lightning and killed the murderers before the murder took place.

While we are telling God what He should do, we should remind Him that over 400,000 people are murdered across the world each year. Many of those are by burning, drowning, suffocation, bombing, stabbing, shooting, strangling, poisoning, decapitation, and hammers to the head.

Then there are the “honor” killings of Islam, the Hindu wives who are burned alive with their dead husbands, vicious rapists, drunk drivers who slaughter the innocent, drug pushers, child molesters, and those who kill millions of babies through abortion each year. So it looks like if we get God to do something about evil, there’s going to be a lot of killing.

Actually, that’s His ultimate plan. He has set aside a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness. That will be a day of swift eternal justice that is going to be so thorough, the Bible warns it will also include all liars, thieves, adulterers, fornicators, homosexuals, and even every idle word we have spoken.

So be patient. Ultimate justice is coming. That’s why we need a Savior.